president obama got some of the tax increases he wanted because the law expired. and then congress led by republicans voted to make bush era tax rates permanent for 99% of all. permanency is the important thing but the importance is you don't have another cliff another expiration date were all of a sudden everything changes. given how much time he devoted to that one topic you think his tax that would have closed the deficit. eliminated the entire national debt. but you see that tiny little blue line that i pointed to write here. that is how much additional revenue he got. this blue area is the revenue he says he wants. he won't get it but if he did it's pretty apparent that has nothing whatsoever to do with solving the spending addiction. so, if this revenue doesn't come anywhere close to solving the problem the real challenge obviously is how we are going to control all of this red. what do we do about this? well we are clearly spending way more than we take in. the real uptick interestingly enough occurs about the time the president took office. it has been har